The Bible tells me I can't get into Heaven if I have sin in my life. But how do get rid my sin? How can I make myself acceptable enough to God so that God will let my through Customs at the Pearly Gate?

How many of you have ever traveled to a foreign country?
For those of you have not, there’s an arm of the government that you’ll encounter on the way back in to the states. Does anybody know what government agency we’re talking about?
It’s called the U.S. Customs and
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It almost sounds as if Paul - one of the greatest Christian who ever lived - is struggling against sin. It sounds like he slipped up now and again and fell short. Is that even possible?

OPEN: In October of 1974 there was a heavy-weight boxing match held in Zaire, a country in Africa. It was called the “Rumble In The Jungle” and it featured two of the best heavy-weight boxers of the day.
Does anybody know who those two boxers were? (George Foreman and Muhammad
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Can you fall down so far you can't get up? Judas did. Are there people in the church today who are like Judas? Is it possible we could be like him? And if so, how would we avoid becoming like him in our lives?

OPEN: A tourist was visiting a famous landmark on the ocean and he’d walked out on a pier to see the ocean better. But as he looked over the edge of the pier he was disturbed by how deep the water seemed to be. As he was thinking about how deep the water must be at this point, he noticed an
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July 4th. When we celebrate our independence we should also look to the Bible and find our what true independece is all about

Romans 7:1-8:4
A Declaration of Independence
Introduction
A. This week we will be celebrating the Countries 227th birthday.
B. One of my favorite holidays
C. July 4 1776 we signed the declaration of Independence
D. Basically this document said that we were no longer a part of any one
E. WE
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Once you’ve been set free in Christ, don’t be entangled again in the bondage of various types of legalism.

FREEDOM IN CHRIST
TEXT: Galatians 5:1-15
INTRODUCTION:
A. SKATING ON THE LORD’S DAY
1. A pastor got up one Sunday morning and all the roads were icy.
2. The streets were all blocked off and there was no way for him to drive to church.
3. He was forced to skate on the
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1 Corinthians 7:6-9
A Second Home
Introduction
A first grade teacher gave each child in her class the first half of a proverb. She then asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. Now, keep in mind that these are 6 year-olds who responded.
[Power Point:]
· Better to be
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Intro: as you read the life of David you realize that God came through for him over and over and over again. Because of God’s faithfulness to David, he wrote psalms of God’s goodness to him. As you read the Psalms, David is thankful for God’s love, forgiveness, grace and mercy, and His power to
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This sermon compares the need for Motivation in order for Olympic athletes to win the Gold to our need for God’s Love to be our Motivation n Going for the Gold in Life.

Going for the Gold in Life
1John 4:7-21
Intro.:
A. This weekend the Winter Olympics started. Some of the events include Figure Skating, Bobsleding, the Luge, Downhill Skiing, Speed skating, Cross Country skiing, snowboarding, etc.
One of the elements of the Olympics is hearing the
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Today we will be studying Romans chapter 7 and chapter 8:1-4.
Paul in these verses writes what could be called a Christians Declaration of Independence. In these verse Paul declares that in Christ we have been set free from three things.

A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (FREEDOM IN CHRIST)
INTRODUCTION
Did you all see some fireworks last night? I really enjoy watching fireworks and my favorite place to watch them is in Virginia. While living in Yorktown, Virginia each 4th of July we would go to watch fireworks
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Acts 2:42-47
“Prayers, Food, Praise, Growth”
By: Rev. Ken Sauer, Pastor, Grace United Methodist Church, Soddy Daisy, TN www.graceumcsd.org
This is the first picture of the first group of individuals who made up the first Christian Church!
They are our forbearers.
They are our
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Ezekiel 37:1-14
“The Leg Bone’s Connected to the Knee Bone…”
By: Rev. Ken Sauer, Pastor of Grace United Methodist Church, Soddy Daisy, TN www.graceumcsd.org
In the year 597 B.C. Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians.
Eighteen year old King Jehoichin, who had only been King for three
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There is only one true way home and that is throught the doorway of death. One day we all must journey home.

II Cor. 5:1-2, 8 “The Way Home”
INTRO: There was a little girl who walked to her house through the cemetery every day after school. She loved to feel the breeze in her hair and to watch the birds. Sometimes she just threw herself on the rich, green grass, and watched the clouds turn into
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“Go for the Gold!” That’s exactly what hundreds of athletes intend to do the next couple of weeks at the Winter Olympics in Torino (Turin), Italy. What does it take to win a gold medal? It takes discipline and focus. If you haven’t had the discipline to train hard for years, you don’t stand a
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THE WAY OF THE SAVIOR (LUKE 9:22-26)
When skater Michelle Kwan was 13, the junior skater who was still plotting her course in the world of figure skating went behind coach Frank Carroll’s back, submitted her application for senior competition, and aimed to transcend her age group. Kwan then
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How could God ever forgive me? I’ve messed things up as a Christian. How could God just look the other way?

This coming Tuesday is July 4th
And on this particular 4th of July our country will have been in existence 230 years.
Ours is a great nation because it has been built upon the principles of Scripture. Our very law is gleaned from the pages of the Old Testament, and many of it’s principles were
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